Influences

This isn't a list of my favorite things; rather it's an incomplete list of things that have directly influenced my storytelling. If you have any questions about how they've influenced me, feel free to leave a comment in my User Page's comment section.

FictionThe Harry Potter series by J.K. RowlingThe Mercury trilogy by Robert KroeseThe plays of William Shakespeare

NonfictionBasic Economics by Thomas SowellThe Genesis of Science by James Hallam

MoviesPeter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogyThe Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

PandeliriumCelestia decides to attempt to reform Discord, so she taps a pony with a similar background for the job. ("Keep Calm and Flutter On" as it occurs in the Petriculture AU.)by Kwakerjak
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The Petriculture Cycle is the moderately pretentious name I have given to a series of stories that begins with my first MLP fan fiction, which has proven reasonably popular.

Thrust into the world of her favorite book-series, Rainbow Dash finds herself dragged along for the ride of Daring Do's latest adventure. However, for Rainbow Dash, breaking the fourth wall may very well prove to be a learning experience.

Goodness, it's been a while, hasn't it? You're probably wondering why my pace has slowed down on Manifesto. Well, there are several reasons, but the most relevant one is that I find myself rewriting large swaths of this chapter as I zero in on the best plan for Sunset to take. I'm basically going back and forth between two ideas that can't really be combined into a single one, and for pacing purposes, I can't have Sunset seriously consider both of them, particularly since I can't think

Having seen Party Pooped, I felt that it actually gave credence to the characterization of Pinkie Pie in The Petriculture Cycle. She was the only pony aside from Twilight to do the reading, she's amazingly organized, and she might as well have used imaginary friend powers to go where she did and do as much as she did.